115 Ky. 443 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1903
Opinion op the court by
Reversing.
Appellant is a classified town of the sixth class, with a population of between 240 and 250. It is an old town situated in a fertile section. About 1886 the Ohio Valley Railway Company, in projecting their line of road, were about to pass several miles away from this town. The citizens interested themselves in an effort to procure its location near the town. As a result, they subscribed, and procured others to subscribe, for about $8,000 to $10,000 of the capital stock of the company, upon condition that the road was located within 1,000 yards of the center "of the town, and that the station to be there established should alwrnys bear the name of the town. This subscription is alleged to have amounted to, and likely enough was in the nature of, a donation to the railway company. The owner of the land near the town over which the road passed in its changed route conveyed a right of way to the company,
In our opinion it would be destructive of the proper government of that community to have it maintain two independent municipalities, where now its population is scarcely able to maintain even one efficient one. The matter of police protection, street improvements, and all the
The judgment of the circuit court sustaining the objections of the citizens of the territory proposed to be annexed is reversed, and the cause is remanded, with directions to enter a judgment of annexation in conformity to the ordinance passed by the board of trustees of appellant town.
Petition for rehearing by appellee overruled.